A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...

A new study of the Amazon rainforest has found the region is shifting toward a 'hypertropical' state as droughts become ...

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there's a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence ...

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

How long would it take for the world's largest rainforest to burn down? If we don't do anything to stop it, we'll soon find out. The Amazon rainforest creates 20% of the Earth's oxygen. It's home to ...

The Amazon may be approaching the point of near total collapse, a new study has concluded. The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and ...

A scraping sound reverberated from the hull as our tiny wooden boat once again juddered to a halt, sending us lurching forward. One of our two-man Indigenous crew jumped from the stern into the ...

Spending 72 hours in the Amazon rainforest exposes the realities of one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Extreme ...

Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the size of ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

An Amazon summit, featuring leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, and Ecuador, will meet for the first time in 14 years. The summit will address how the nations ...

The world's largest rain forest houses an abundance of wildlife. March 11, 2009 — -- It's home to the world's most vast variety of living creatures with the most birds, freshwater fish and ...